Liz won a creative writing contest in 2010 awarded at the Medicine Consortium. I wanted to share it with everyone. See Below:
Nostalgia
A funny sentiment, nostalgia is,
That strong bittersweet longing for something past.
Derived from the Greek nostos, “returning home” and algos, “pain,”
There was a time when nostalgia was a medical condition.
Treatment for soldiers at war was return to home.
Nostalgia strikes me, occasionally, in the hospital on morning rounds,
Darting between rooms, in and out of lives.
A patient is wearing my grandmother’s perfume.
I want to linger in this room, take off my white coat,
Come home.